BIG successes of Lisp (was ...)

[mike420 at ziplip.com]

> Scott McKay wrote:
> 
>> <mike420 at ziplip.com> wrote in message
>> news:BYIFD1LVHXB1ALLZLRH3P2BZOIIFHWLSJ4B4BRP3 at ziplip.com...
>> 
>>>In the context of LATEX, some Pythonista asked what the big
>>>successes of Lisp were. I think there were at least three big
>>>successes.
>> 
>> 
>>>a. AFAIK Orbitz frequently has to be shut down for maintenance
>>>(read "full garbage collection" - I'm just guessing: with
>>>generational garbage collection, you still have to do full
>>>garbage collection once in a while, and on a system like that
>>>it can take a while)
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> Not true.  The servers do get restarted a couple of times
>> a day  to get new data loads, which are huge.

How pathetic. "Server farm" notwithstanding, the WHOLE WEB
SITE gets closed for prolonged periods of time. For comparison, 
Travelocity and Expedia are up 24/7.